J.K. Rowling announces book details, new James Bond author, pet books

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--J.K. Rowling announces details about new book: She's back! Harry Potter fans, get ready for something a little different. Rowling's first adult book, which she announced today will be called The Casual Vacancy, comes out on Sept. 27. The book is set in a seemingly idyllic English town where things are not as they seen, USA TODAY's Carol Memmott reports. Publisher Little, Brown says The Casual Vacancy will be "blackly comic." Also buzzing: J.K. Rowling's revamped website.

--New 'James Bond' author: British novelist William Boyd will pen the next 007 installment. The Restless and Any Human Heart author, who follows in the footsteps of novelists Sebastian Faulks and Jeffrey Deaver to keep the Ian Fleming superspy story alive, says the new novel will be "classic Bond" set in the "late 1960s." In March, the Ian Fleming estate announced it sold the digital rights to all Bond novels.

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